Date |
Subject |
By |
Summary |
Poster |
22 Mar 1984 |
The Museum Comes to Life |
Rob Shortland-Ball |
Museum of East Anglian Life |
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8 May 1984 |
Clocks and Clock Making |
Michael Hills
Hills of Sudbury |
Held at BDC Offices |
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12 May 1986 |
Who's Been Living in My House? |
|
How to trace the history of your house or site, with exhibition of
documents and photographs of 'Old Hadleigh' |
PDF |
3 Dec 1986 |
Period Properties, Hadleigh's Houses in 3 periods |
John Bloomfield
John Griffin
Chris Culpin |
|
PDF |
28 Jan 1987 |
Growth of Hadleigh from Primitive Settlement to a Self Governing Town |
WAB Jones |
|
PDF |
28 Feb 1987 |
Antiques seminar: English Silver from 1237AD, Pottery and Porcelain from
200BC |
Noel Turner, FRICS |
|
PDF |
25 Mar 1987 |
Rise and Fall of a Cloth Town |
Frank Grace |
|
PDF |
20 May 1987 |
The New Hadleigh Town Plan |
Steven Brown |
|
PDF |
23 Sep 1987 |
Suffolk Landscapes |
Celia Jennings |
|
PDF |
25 Nov 1987 |
Hadleigh 1881 |
History Group |
|
PDF |
27 Jan 1988 |
Listed Gardens |
Audrey Tyerman |
|
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23 Mar 1988 |
Hadleigh 1618-1686, Chartered Borough |
WAB Jones |
|
PDF |
22 Apr 1988 |
Our Trees, The Aftermath of the Hurricane |
Jenny Carlisle, Conservation Officer, Babergh DC |
|
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25 Apr 1988 |
visit to Hadleigh Sewage Treatment Plant |
|
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PDF |
28 Apr 1988 |
walk, Rands Farm to Bullocky Fen |
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04 May 1988 |
Three Hadleigh Houses described by their
owners (incl Flying Chariot) |
L Panton, etc |
|
PDF |
29 Jun 1988 |
AGM |
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28 Sep 1988 |
The Cloth Industry in Mediaeval Suffolk |
Mark Bailey |
|
PDF |
7 Dec 1988 |
Books as Art Objects |
Noel Turner |
|
PDF |
25 Jan 1989 |
The Changing Townscape of 19th Century Ipswich |
Frank Grace |
|
PDF |
22 Mar 1989 |
The History of Hadleigh's Grand Feoffment |
Jim Quinlan |
|
PDF |
31 May 1989 |
Listing Old Buildings |
Sylvia Colman |
|
PDF |
28 Jun 1989 |
AGM |
|
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28 Jun 1989 |
First Hadleigh Society
Award to Keith Young for renovation of 'Edwards of Hadleigh' |
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23 Sep 1989 |
Visit to Leez Priory |
John Bloomfield |
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27 Sep 1989 |
Gardening in the 18th Century |
Audrey Tyerman |
|
PDF |
22 Nov 1989 |
Soddington Street |
Environmental Group |
|
PDF |
31 Jan 1990 |
Mediaeval Hall Houses |
John Bloomfield |
|
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14 Mar 1990 |
Hadleigh businesses: Citadel Press and H Erben |
|
|
PDF |
23 May 1990 |
Garden party, Pink House |
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27 Jun 1990 |
AGM |
|
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23 Aug 1990 |
Noel Turner FRICS, former Chairman, died aged 72 |
|
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28 Aug 1990 |
WAB Jones, President, died aged 83 |
|
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01 Sep 1990 |
Environment Group consider Crest proposal |
Michael Greenwood |
|
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26 Sep 1990 |
Suffolk's Traffic and Roads into the Next Century |
J J Stansfield, County Surveyor |
|
PDF |
10 Oct 1990 |
Local Silk, its History and Manufacture |
R K Lynton, Vanners Silks |
|
PDF |
21 Nov 1990 |
Hadleigh 1871 - a time of change |
History Group |
|
PDF |
01 Dec 1990 |
Hadleigh 1881 book published |
History Group |
|
PDF |
23 Jan 1991 |
The Work of the SPS |
Graeme Bushell |
|
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01 Mar 1991 |
Guildhall Complex reopens |
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20 Mar 1991 |
What Future for South Suffolk? |
Don Ayre, SCC Planning Dept |
|
PDF |
15 May 1991 |
Are You Sitting Comfortably: Antique Chairs |
Gordon Sutcliffe |
|
PDF |
21 May 1991 |
Elizabethan Hadleigh - Responses to the Poor |
Prof Marjorie K McIntosh |
|
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26 Jun 1991 |
AGM & talk, Beyond the Millenium |
Michael Greenwood |
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26 Jun 1991 |
Canon J Griffin appointed Hon President |
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26 Jun 1991 |
Noel Turner Award to Gordon Sutcliffe |
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26 Jun 1991 |
Noel Turner Award to Odds & Ends |
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26 Jun 1991 |
Noel Turner Award to Richard Jackson
Partnership |
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10 Jul 1991 |
The place of Hadleigh within Babergh |
D Bishop, Babergh CE, G Swain, R Coysh |
|
PDF |
18 Sep 1991 |
Doomsday Suffolk |
Mark Bailey |
|
PDF |
06 Oct 1991 |
Hadleigh Guildhall guided tour |
John Bloomfield |
|
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30 Oct 1991 |
Fine Arts & Antiques |
James Fletcher, Oliver's of Sudbury |
|
PDF |
27 Nov 1991 |
The Effects of Farming on our Environment |
Hans Luers |
|
PDF |
28 Jan 1992 |
Hadleigh with the lid off |
John Bloomfield |
|
PDF |
28 Jan 1992 |
first Hadleigh Society event in Guildhall |
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27 Feb 1992 |
planning panel formed |
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10 Mar 1992 |
Listed Gardens of Suffolk |
Audrey Tyerman |
|
PDF |
30 Apr 1992 |
Why Must the Show Go On? The Seventy Years of Hadleigh Amateur Dramatic Society |
Brian Haylock |
|
PDF |
10 May 1992 |
visit of Harwich Society |
|
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21 May 1992 |
visit of Long Melford H & A Society |
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25 Jun 1992 |
AGM |
|
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25 Jun 1992 |
Noel Turner Award to National Rivers
Authority for Tinkers Lane weir |
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29 Jul 1992 |
visit to Bury St Edmunds Record Office |
Rosemary Rogers |
|
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01 Sep 1992 |
Town Archives issue raised in Newsletter (Sep, Oct, Nov) |
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13 Sep 1992 |
visit to Woodbridge |
|
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22 Sep 1992 |
Napoleonic Woodbridge |
Peter Driver |
|
PDF |
13 Oct 1992 |
Hadleigh Traffic Survey |
Malcolm Smith, Deputy County Survey |
|
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19 Nov 1992 |
Our Town and its Heritage |
Richard Ward, BDC Conservation Officer |
|
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01 Dec 1992 |
Babergh Local Plan Alteration no 1, through to June |
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26 Jan 1993 |
Use and Abuse of Decorative Detail in Hadleigh |
Richard Bawden |
Oddities & Curiosities of Hadleigh |
PDF |
11 Mar 1993 |
Suffolk - a Personal World |
Ronald Blythe |
|
PDF |
27 Apr 1993 |
The Art of Thomas Gainsborough |
Hugh Belsay, curator Gainsborough's Hous |
|
PDF |
09 May 1993 |
visit to Harwich |
|
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15 May 1993 |
stand at Hadleigh Show |
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|
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23 May 1993 |
visit from Woodbridge Soc |
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24 Jun 1993 |
AGM |
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21 Jul 1993 |
Friends of the Guildhall formed |
Jane Haylock |
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01 Sep 1993 |
Suffolk Historic Buildings Group formed |
Martin Mosebury Smith |
|
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21 Sep 1993 |
Hadleigh & the Amateur Stage (HADS history continued) |
Brian Haylock |
|
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21 Oct 1993 |
Future of Local Government |
E Barritt SCC Planning Officer |
|
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18 Nov 1993 |
A Long Look Back at Suffolk |
Norman Scarfe |
|
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27 Jan 1994 |
Patterns for Suffolk Buildings |
Celia Jennings |
|
|
08 Mar 1994 |
As I Was Walking Past the Skip |
John Bloomfield |
|
|
27 Apr 1994 |
Suffolk in the Civil War |
Frank Grace |
|
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30 Jun 1994 |
AGM |
|
|
|
23 Aug 1994 |
The Work of the SPS |
Gregory Luton |
|
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6 Oct 1994 |
Shipping on Orwell |
Richard Smith |
|
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22 Nov 1994 |
Hadleigh in the 1840s |
History Group |
|
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10 Jan 1995 |
Hadleigh Picture Show |
Peter Boulton |
|
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16 Mar 1995 |
The Day That Peace Broke Out |
John Bloomfield |
|
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25 Apr 1995 |
Conserving our Heritage |
Michael Munt |
|
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29 Jun 1995 |
A Country Parsonage in the Forepart of the Century |
Canon John Griffin |
|
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29 Jun 1995 |
AGM |
|
|
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22 Aug 1995 |
Suffolk Garden Legacy -Sir Cedric Morris & Friends |
Audrey Tyerman |
|
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14 Oct 1995 |
Visit to Giffords Hall |
Mrs Brocklebank |
|
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19 Oct 1995 |
Suffolk Churches |
Fred Bridges |
|
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7 Nov 1995 |
A Year on the Farm with Horses |
Roger Clark |
|
|
9 Jan 1996 |
Archaeology in Suffolk |
Keith Wade,Principle Archaeology Officer |
|
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14 Mar 1996 |
Access to your Archives |
Guenever Pachent, Assistant Director Suffolk County Libraries and Heritage |
|
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23 Apr 1996 |
'Touring' Historic Colchester |
Don Scott (lecturer, tour guide) |
|
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27 Jun 1996 |
AGM |
|
|
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20 Aug 1996 |
Suffolk Regiment Archives |
Gwyn Thomas, archivist |
|
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17 Oct 1996 |
Old Hadleigh |
Peter Branch, past landlord at Kings Head and past Mayor of Hadleigh |
|
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26 Nov 1996 |
The Town & St Mary's |
Dean, The Very Revd Stuart Morris |
|
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28 Jan 1997 |
Lavenham, story of a Suffolk wool town |
Fred Bridges |
|
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13 Mar 1997 |
Early Motoring in Suffolk |
John Bridges |
|
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29 Apr 1997 |
Tracing the History of Houses |
Sue Andrews |
|
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26 Jun 1997 |
AGM |
|
|
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12 Aug 1997 |
Old Hadeigh Picture Show |
Richard Ward |
|
|
1 Oct 1997 |
Fire in Benton
Street: The Magistrate and the Servant Girl |
Clive Paine |
|
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25 Nov 1997 |
Hadleigh in War & Peace from 1939 |
Peter Branch |
|
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Tues 27 Jan 1998 |
Shopping in
Bildeston thro' the ages |
Sue Andrews |
|
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Thur 12 Mar 1998 |
The 19th century
Silk Trade of Suffolk & Essex |
David Possee |
|
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Tues 28 Apr 1998 |
A new look at
your brick wall (discovering what walls can show) |
Roger Kennell |
|
|
Thur 25 Jun 1998 |
Annual General
Meeting followed by talk on Hadleigh Archives |
Joe Byrne |
|
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Tue 11 Aug 1998 |
A Brett Valley Patchwork - titbits
of history |
Sue Andrews |
|
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Sat 19
Sep 1998 |
Suffolk Local History Council Study day |
|
|
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Thu 1 Oct 1998 |
Firefighting in Suffolk |
Graham Saward |
|
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Tue
24 Nov 1998 |
The story of Hadleigh's Charities
from 1400 to 1900 |
History Group |
|
|
Tue 2 Feb 1999 |
Illicit Sex in 17th
Century Hadleigh |
Sue Andrews |
|
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Thu
18 Mar 1999 |
Will - making in Mediaeval Hadleigh |
Peter Northeast |
|
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Tue
27 Apr 1999 |
Hookers and Strippers - The Paupers of Hadleigh |
Clive Paine |
|
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Thu
24 Jun 1999 |
AGM, Cheese and Wine |
|
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Tue
17 Aug 1999 |
Putting a National Trust House to Bed |
Monica Place |
|
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Thu
14 Oct 1999 |
What did you do in the war, John?
A schoolboy's memories of wartime Hadleigh. |
John Kersey |
|
poster |
Tue
23 Nov 1999 |
100 Pictures from the Hadleigh Archives |
Joe Byrne |
|
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Tuesday
8th Feb 2000 |
Are you being heard? |
Mrs Pat Barnes, Chief Executive, Babergh District Council |
|
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Thursday
16th March 2000 |
Throwing Light on the Dark Ages in Hadleigh
|
Sue Andrews |
|
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Tuesday
25th April 2000 |
Freemasonry in the Hadleigh and Colchester Area in the Early Days
|
Mrs Pat Lewis |
|
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Thursday
22nd June 2000 |
AGM |
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|
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Tuesday
22nd August 2000 |
Hadleigh Time Line |
John Bloomfield |
A chronology of Hadleigh’s history from the earliest known date |
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Thursday
19th October |
Will Making in Medieval Hadleigh – part 2 |
Peter Northeast |
In Part 1 we heard
how their wills revealed that some of Hadleigh’s past residents were
millionaires, by today’s values. Find our more in Part 2. |
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Tuesday
28th November |
Suffolk’s Mary Rose |
Clive Paine |
Henry VIII’s younger sister and her association with Suffolk |
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Tuesday 6th February 2001 |
Hadleigh in 1881 |
History Group |
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Thursday 22nd March |
Films from the East Anglian archive |
Mr F Jacobi |
E Anglian Film Archive - UEA |
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Tuesday 24th April |
Hadleigh Archaeological Dig |
Linzi Everett |
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Tuesday 26th June |
AGM |
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Tuesday 21st August |
Bieberach Revisited |
Carol Wheatley |
|
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Monday 22nd October |
Edwardian Reform in the Hadleigh Area (1447-1553) |
Clive Paine |
|
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Tuesday 20th November |
The History of Cartoons |
Brian Haylock |
|
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Tuesday
5th February
2002 |
The Cold War Revisited (Personal Experiences of a Berlin
Airlift Pilot) |
Jim Betteridge |
|
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Wednesday
20th March |
From Sheep to Shawl |
Barbara Rumsey |
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Tuesday 23rd April |
The
Structure of St Mary’s Church, Hadleigh
|
Roger Kennel |
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Thursday
27th June |
AGM |
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Wednesday
21st August |
The Organist and the
Parlourmaid |
Colin Stephenson |
A Hadleigh Love Story |
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Wednesday
23rd October |
Hadleigh Looks After Its Poor, 1400-1700 |
Sue Andrews |
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Thursday
28th November |
Dr Rowland Taylor and Mary’s Counter Reformation in the
Hadleigh Area. |
Clive Paine |
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Monday
3rd February 2003 |
Hadleigh Picture Show |
Joe Byrne |
More pictures from Hadleigh's Archives. |
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Wednesday
19th March |
Hadleigh's Open Spaces |
Mark Taverner |
in relation to a possible ‘Anglia In Bloom’ entry |
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Tuesday
29th April |
The Wealth of Hadleigh’s Charities |
Sue Andrews |
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Wednesday
25th June |
AGM |
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Wednesday
20th August |
The Organist's Son - A Hadleigh Childhood |
Colin Stephenson |
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poster |
Thursday
16th October
258kB PDF
|
Cedric
Morris: 40 years in Hadleigh |
Glyn Morgan |
Glyn Morgan on the work of Cedric Morris who for 40 years
was one of the most celebrated residents of Hadleigh. From 1944 up to
Cedric’s death in 1982 Glyn was a frequent pupil at the East Anglian
School of Painting and Drawing at Benton End. |
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Monday
24th November |
Queen Elizabeth's Progresses Through Suffolk, 1561 and 1578 |
Clive Paine |
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221kB PDF |
Tuesday
3rd February
2004 |
Hadleigh Highway Robbery
and update |
History group |
See
newsletter |
PDF 88k |
Monday
15th March |
From Hadleigh to Holland-on-Sea and Back: a Historical
Comparison |
Roger Kennell |
Both Hadleigh and Holland-on-Sea appear in Doomsday.
Today they are about the same size, but they developed very differently.
Roger has studied their histories and will present a comparison. |
PDF 389k |
Wednesday
19th May |
Hadleigh’s
History Mysteries! |
Sue Andrews |
A Question & Answer Session
|
265k |
Wednesday
23rd June |
Annual General Meeting
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Monday
16th August |
Commonwealth War Graves
|
Peter Lee |
see
newsletter |
155k PDF |
Tuesday
12th October |
What did 'ag labs' actually do? |
Michael Stone |
We know that these abbreviations mask a great deal of
painful work in all weathers, but do they mask a great range of skills?
This talk gives a detailed answer from 1842/3, using an unpublished source
from a mid-Suffolk estate. Day by day the activities of the farm staff
are recalled. |
283k PDF |
Wednesday
24th November |
Victorian Christmas |
Clive Paine
|
Most of our images of the
'perfect Christmas', its customs, celebrations and gatherings are based in
the Victorian period. But how did the Victorians themselves see Christmas
Past; how did they revive, adapt and add to the celebration of the birth of
Christ, with entertainments, songs, decorations, food and drink; and what
was the reality of Christmas for those at different levels of society? This
talk attempts to answer these questions using contemporary accounts,
newspaper reports, drawings and photographs. |
173k jpeg |
Wednesday 2nd
February 2005 |
The
Battle of Maldon & The Danish Conquest |
Dr Sam Newton |
An illustrated presentation on the two phases of the coming of the Danes to
East Anglia, looking first at the Danish kingdom of Guthrum in the late
ninth century before considering the return of the Danes in the late tenth
century and, in particular, the Battle of Maldon. Understanding of the
latter is enormously enhanced by one of the greatest surviving Old English
battle-poems, which provides an almost blow-by-blow account and details
which help us locate the site of the battle around the Northey Island
causeway. |
PDF |
Wednesday 6th
April |
Suffolk Witches |
Pip
Wright |
From medieval
days through to Victorian times, how superstition has haunted Suffolk, and
the persecution it led to. |
PDF |
Monday 23rd May |
A
Hadleigh ‘Pub Crawl’ |
Sue Andrews |
an (unfortunately) imaginary tour of the town’s pubs of yesteryear. |
266kB PDF |
Wednesday 29th
June |
Annual
General Meeting |
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Wednesday 17th
August
in St Mary's Church |
Behind The
Vestry Door |
John Bloomfield |
St Mary's Church Vestry has,
for some centuries, been the repository of day to day matters and
objects concerning the church as a structure and an institution. Though
relatively inconsequential at the time, they now have a fascinating
historical importance. illustrating some of the physical changes brought
about by the personalities involved as well as a small insight into the
individuals themselves. John Bloomfield has compiled some of this
information to show what previous generations did to the church to match
the requirements of the day and, in doing so, has unearthed some
surprises.
|
566kB PDF |
Wednesday 5th
October |
Plague in 17th Century Suffolk
|
Clive Paine |
|
60k pdf |
Wednesday 23rd
November |
Hadleigh’s 20th
Century Revealed |
Roger Kennell |
An
illustrated look at the town during the 20th century, which brought great
changes, especially during the latter decades. Linked to the recent
publication of a new book, Hadleigh 1900 - 2000, see some of the pictures
which did not get a place in the book. Test your memory on some shops and
shopkeepers of Hadleigh. |
PDF |
Monday
30th January 2006 |
Enjoying Old
Churches |
Roy Tricker |
|
pdf 678k |
Monday
3rd April |
St Edmund:
History and Legend |
Dr Sam Newton |
|
PDF (116k) |
Wednesday 24th May
|
Pretty Corsets
in Hadleigh |
Roger Kennell |
For over twenty
years early last century, the Hadleigh Corset Factory of William Pretty
provided employment for many local women and girls.
Who was William Pretty? Where was
the factory, what was made there, and why was a basket regulary lowered from
the factory window? Researched, and now told for the first time, this is the
interesting story of an age when women dressed so differently to today’s
fashions. |
563kB PDF |
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Wednesday 28th June
|
Annual General
Meeting |
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Wednesday 16th August
|
Transportation
in Suffolk |
Pip Wright |
|
150kB PDF |
Friday 1st September
7.30pm for 8pm |
Ruby & Her
Horses |
The Bumpstead
Boys |
True life
stories from the age of agricultural depression much of which is centred
around Ruby's love and adventures with horses in these hard days. A time
when you could walk on land from Cambridge to Clacton that nobody would take
and as Ruby said 'if you hadn't got anything you were lucky, for sooner or
later you would loose it and you had not the worry of it.' The songs are
sung by Andrew in his fine nut brown Suffolk voice whilst Neil tells the
stories just at Ruby told them. |
234kB
jpeg |
Monday
9th October |
Hadleigh's Parks |
Sue Andrews |
|
907kB PDF |
Wednesday 29th
November |
The New Poor Law |
Clive Paine |
|
104kB PDF |
Wednesday 17th January 2007 |
Rags and Bones, a 19th Century Working Class Community in
Ipswich |
Frank Grace |
In late Victorian Ipswich over 8000 people lived in the
slums of the St Clement's district. Through the lives and experiences of the
inhabitants Frank Grace explores the world of the poor. |
Poster PDF (537kB) |
Monday 26th March |
Aldham, A Changed Village |
Pam Oldroyd |
A resident of Aldham for 40 years, Pam researched the
history of the village for 20 years and witnessed a strand of social history
unfolding around her. Some of the displays from her exhibitions of
1988/90 were on view. |
Poster (pdf) 106kB
Poster (jpg) 212kB |
Wednesday 2nd May |
King Alfred, the Cakes and the Raven Banner |
Dr Sam Newton |
reference to Guthrum |
Poster (pdf) 109kB |
Wednesday 20th June |
AGM |
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Monday 13th August |
Hadleigh 1836 |
History Group |
The eight members of
Hadleigh Society History Group peopled the streets of the town
based on a map dated 1836 held in Hadleigh Archive. The map shows all the
residential streets with buildings represented as approximate-sized
rectangles, except for the parish church of St Mary’s that appears to be a
scaled plan. Some dwellings and business premises have the names of their
occupiers, while others are numbered. These numbers do not refer to present
addresses but to a local census discovered in the Suffolk Record Office at
Bury St Edmunds.
|
Poster (pdf) 236kB |
Monday 15th October |
Women of Hadleigh |
Sue Andrews |
C15 Matilda Groome: 1464
set up hospice 30y before Pykenham's almshouses C16 Alice Parkins
C16 Ann Still
C17 Elizabeth Buddle
C18 Ann Beaumont
C18 Sarah Lloyd
C19 Phoebe Death - the economics of a poor family
C20 'Mrs Oldham' |
Poster (pdf)
234kB |
Wednesday 5th December |
Men of Hadleigh |
Roger Kennell |
William Pykenham, came to Hadleigh 1469
John Lindsey=Simon Dewes=John Muriel, d1975
Dean Brown - mid C20th
John Hervey - leader of the Hadleigh Gang,
trial 1747
Oswald Gayford - record flight to S Africa,
1933
Hugh James Rose - Oxford movement
Fred Holbrow - painter, decorator
Roland Alderton - Toppesfield Mill
and the bricklayers & carpenters who built
the town |
Poster (pdf) 854kB |
Mon
14 Jan 2008 |
Wolves Wood |
Mark Nowers, RSPB |
An ancient woodland and bird
reserve |
PDF 98k |
Wed 5 Mar |
From the Quill to the
Ballpoint |
Michael Woods |
The story of the development
of writing implements and materials. Based on a personal collection. |
PDF 330k |
Mon 19 May |
The Making of the Suffolk
Landscape |
Edward Martin |
|
394k PDF |
Wed 18 Jun |
AGM |
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Mon 11 Aug |
Medical Matters in Hadleigh |
Millie Goulbourn |
Medical
Tales |
PDF |
Margaret Jeffrey |
Dr Franey: Hadleigh Cottage Hospital. |
|
Sue Andrews |
Smallpox and the Pest House
Charity |
|
Wed 15 Oct |
Market Stalls and Almshouses |
Sue Andrews |
The story of Hadleigh’s two
feoffment charities. |
PDF 789k |
Mon 1 Dec |
The Hadleigh Dean's Diary
|
History Group |
an 1840’s record of the Dean’s
professional life. |
PDF 550k |
Mon 19 Jan 2009 |
‘The King of Bling’ – The Prittlewell Discovery -
|
Dr Sam Newton |
Who was the king who lay in
state in the richly laden burial-mound discovered at Prittlewell in Essex?
Preliminary indications suggest that he may have been the first Christian
king of the East Saxons, Sæberht, who died c.616. Sam explores what we can
see in the burial chamber in the context of the history of the early seventh
century. |
170k PDF |
Wed 18 Mar in Town Hall Dining Room |
An Airman's Tale |
John Bloomfield |
An illustrated biography of
the son of a local man, an airman, Mr McNamara, who 'did it all' and was
killed before he was 21. |
PDF 891kB |
Mon 18 May |
The Reign of Henry VIII in
Suffolk |
Clive Paine |
Themes included Cardinal
Wolsey, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, Taxation Riots, the local militia,
religious changes, mansions and diet. |
114k PDF |
Wed 17 Jun |
AGM |
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Mon 10 Aug |
And so to bed in Hadleigh,
1550 - 1750 |
Sue Andrews |
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677k PDF |
Wed 21 Oct |
Members' Evening |
allcomers |
Open mic - bring your own reminiscences about people,
buildings, trades: anything about Hadleigh. Call us if you need any
projection facilities. |
PDF |
Mon 7 Dec |
Hadleigh in World War II |
Roger Kennell |
|
PDF |
Wed 20 Jan 2010 |
Hadleigh & Flying |
John Bloomfield |
Poster shows Mrs de Havilland
and Lady Bailey at Hadleigh Airfield. |
423k PDF |
Mon 15 Mar |
Suffolk Deer Parks |
Dr Rosemary Hoppitt |
Medieval hunting and the
Suffolk parks. |
923kB PDF |
Wed 19 May |
Hugh James Rose, Dean of
Hadleigh |
Revd Paul Hamlet |
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PDF 469k |
Mon 21 Jun |
AGM |
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Wed 18 Aug |
The Deanery Tower |
Roger Kennell |
An illustrated presentation
telling the story of William Pykenham, a late 15th century Rector of
Hadleigh. He held many church appointments, and was lawyer, and also a
builder. The stunning Rectors tower at Hadleigh is one of his buildings. But
what was he like as a man? |
525kB pdf |
Mon 18 Oct |
World War 2 Memories |
Nina and Steve Sherwood |
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142kB PDF |
Wed 15 Dec |
Crime and Punishment in 19th
Century Hadleigh |
Hadleigh Local Studies
Workshop Group: Sue Andrews, Millie Goulbourn, Margaret Jeffery, Jean Styles |
‘And the donkey was brought
into the court’. A look at Crime and Punishment in Hadleigh during the
nineteenth century. |
Portrait
Landscape |
Wed 19 Jan 2011 |
Hadleigh Trades and
Occupations in the 19th Century |
History Group |
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Mon 14 Mar |
Helming Leget, royal servant and Pond Hall, Hadleigh |
Dr Rosemary Hoppitt & Sue
Andrews |
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177k PDF |
Wed 18 May |
Pictures of Hadleigh Streets,
1962 |
Jan Byrne |
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landscape
portrait |
Mon 20 Jun |
AGM |
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Wed 17 Aug |
In a Deanery Garden |
The Very Revd Martin Thrower,
Rector of Hadleigh, Dean of Bocking and Rural Dean of Hadleigh |
Starting with tour around
the garden if weather is suitable, followed by talk in the Old Town Hall.
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300k PDF |
Mon 17 October |
The Ipswich Quayside |
Suffolk Archaeological Team
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123k PDF |
Mon 12 Dec |
The Medieval Manor of
Hadleigh |
Margaret Woods |
from translations of the
original manorial documents |
358k PDF |
Wed 18 Jan
2012 |
Martello Towers |
Roger Kennell |
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80k PDF |
Mon 12 Mar |
Hadleigh in the
News |
Terry Hunt,
editor, East Anglian Daily Times |
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58k PDF |
Wed 16 May |
History of
Polstead |
Bill Wigglesworth |
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100k PDF |
Mon 18 Jun |
AGM |
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Wed 15 Aug |
Sustainable
Architecture Without Gadgets |
Ralph Carpenter |
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PDF |
Mon 15 Oct |
Semer and the
Workhouse |
Denise
Hammond-Webb |
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PDF |
Mon 10 Dec |
Ghosts and
Ghoulies |
Sheila Wright |
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PDF |
2013
Wed 16th Jan |
Most Secret: The
Hidden History of Orford Ness |
Paddy Heazell |
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PDF |
Mon 11th Mar |
Plague in 17th
Century Suffolk |
Pip Wright |
the various
visitations of the bubonic plague in this county, with special reference to
Ipswich in 1665. |
PDF |
Wed 15th May |
The Development of St
Edmundsbury Cathedral |
Sarah Friswell |
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PDF |
Mon 17th Jun |
Poor Relief and
Community in Hadleigh 1547–1600 |
Professor Marjorie McIntosh |
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PDF |
Sat 10th Aug |
Orwell river trip |
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Wed 14th Aug |
AGM |
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Mon 14th Oct |
John Winthrop |
Dr Nick Sign |
Though people will be
familiar with the story of the Pilgrim Fathers and their heroic efforts to
establish a new colony in America in 1620, an equally important but perhaps
lesser known expedition of 1630 was led by a Suffolk gentleman, John
Winthrop of Groton. This talk looks at his family background, his life in
England and his reasons for going. The talk then examines the struggle to
make the new colony of Boston, Massachusetts, a success and looks at some of
its cultural influences. |
PDF |
Mon 9 Dec |
Hadleigh in
the Great War |
Hadleigh Society History Group |
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PDF |
2014 Mon
3 Feb |
The Brick
Buildings of Hadleigh: Details and Oddities |
Roger Kennell |
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PDF |
Wed 2 Apr |
The story of
Hadleigh's parish workhouse |
Ray Whitehand |
Hadleigh's parish workhouse was in operation between 1574 - 1834. It was
noted in the 1601 act as a positive example of a well-run workhouse, the
only one in continuous service throughout the period. |
PDF |
Wed 21 May |
Hadleigh and the
Suffolk Yeomanry during the French Wars, 1794-1815 |
Dr Margaret Thomas |
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PDF |
Mon 16 Jun |
AGM |
followed by Margaret Woods talking on 'The Courts and Petty Crime in
Medieval Hadleigh' |
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Wed 6 Aug |
Frolic, Fervour
and Fornication |
Pip Wright |
The registers and
papers that once lay in the parish chests of Suffolk villages contain all
kinds of items that could so easily have been thrown away or never written
at all. The surprises they reveal about the people of Suffolk in past
centuries is remarkable. This talk is all about the things you never
expected to find written in the parish records of Suffolk. |
PDF |
Sat 27 Sep |
Suffolk Local
History Council Study Day |
several |
Not a Hadleigh Society event. |
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Mon 6 Oct |
Boudica and the
Iceni Rebellion, 60 – 61 AD |
Dr Nick Sign |
This talk presents and questions the
well known story of the rebellion against the Romans, led by the queen of
the Iceni. Beginning with the origins of her name and the many different
images of her produced over several centuries, the lecture goes on to
examine the nature of the surviving evidence and some recent publications to
separate myth from probability and to offer an alternative view of those
terrible events. |
PDF |
Wed 3 Dec |
Ho, Ho, Ho
Hadleigh |
The Untapped Writers |
A collection of
comic and serious poetry, prose and sketches |
PDF |
Wed 4 Feb 2015 |
Hadleigh’s
Charities |
History Group |
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PDF |
Tue 24 Mar |
Foul Deeds &
Suspicious Deaths in Suffolk |
Mark Mower |
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PDF |
Tue 12 May |
The History of Spoken
English - and why Suffolk is the most important dialect |
Charlie Haylock |
Hear how the seed of spoken English started in
Suffolk, how each invading force affected the English language, and the
different sounds they brought. Charlie will demonstrate how and why Suffolk
helped shape a whole continent’s dialect, and explain why so many Suffolk
people are taken as Australian. Highly entertaining. |
PDF |
Wed 10 Jun |
AGM |
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Wed 5 Aug |
A Hadleigh
Perambulation - Beating the Bounds |
Roger Kennell and
Sally Looker |
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PDF |
Tue 6 Oct |
100 Not Out - A
History of the Diocese |
Roy Tricker |
Each of our bishops is
highlighted together with some rather eccentric and autocratic priests! The
story weaves the passage of time as our diocese grew and developed into what
we know today. |
PDF |
Wed 2 Dec |
Out On The Margins
- Suffolk Poachers and Smugglers |
William Tyler
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PDF |
Tue 2 Feb 2016 |
The Bronze Age in
Suffolk |
Edward Martin |
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PDF |
Wed 16 Mar |
The Lost City of
Dunwich |
Mark Mitchells
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PDF |
Tue 10 May |
Servants in
Suffolk Country Houses |
Dr Nick Sign |
This talk examines the many different
servant roles to run a large country house, the below-stairs hierarchy, the
different duties of male and female servants, methods of recruitment,
servants’ wages, working conditions and their living accommodation. Taken
from Suffolk records c1700 to c1900 |
PDF |
Wed 15 Jun |
AGM |
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with a brief talk afterwards by Roger Kennell,
Morgan Lear and Hattie Bawden on 'The Guildhall Kitchen' |
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Tue 9 Aug |
Henslow of Hitcham |
Edward Martin |
The Life, Influence & Legacy of Darwin's tutor.
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PDF |
Wed 5 Oct |
Hadleigh Great War
Centenary Project |
Mark Brennan |
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PDF |
Tue 6 Dec |
From Yule to Morecambe and Wise: A History of
the English Christmas |
William Tyler |
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PDF |
Tue 7 Feb 2017 |
The Angel Roofs of
East Anglia |
Michael Rimmer |
Angel roof carvings comprise the largest
surviving body of major English medieval wood sculpture, often masterpieces
of sculpture and engineering but neglected by academics and art historians.
Michael Rimmer’s talk will show the artistry and architecture of these
inaccessible and little-studied medieval artworks in more detail and clarity
than ever before, explain how they were made, by whom, and why. |
PDF |
Wed 22 Mar |
The History of
Suffolk Gravestones |
Robert Halliday |
The origins, history and development
of gravestones in Suffolk, from the middle ages to the Victorian era,
showing the symbolism and artistry used on gravestones. |
PDF |
Tue 2 May |
Simon of Sudbury
- The French Connection |
Roger Green |
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PDF |
Tue 13 Jun |
AGM followed by
'Ever Changing Hadleigh' |
Jan Byrne and Sue Angland |
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Wed 16 Aug |
The Liberty of St
Etheldreda |
Bob Merrett |
The Liberty of St
Etheldreda is an Anglo Saxon legal institution which is at least 1047 year
old. This talk will look at why Liberties were created and why a large part
of south east Suffolk was chosen to be a Liberty granted to the double
monastery established by Etheldreda at Ely. We will also look at the impact
that the Liberty of St Etheldreda and the Liberty of St Edmunds had until
recent times. |
PDF |
Tue 17 Oct |
Eastern Angles,
Style & Origins |
Ivan Cutting |
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PDF |
Wed 6 Dec |
‘Cakes, Ale &
Partying: Feasting & Fundraising in Medieval Suffolk’.
Mulled wine & mince pies |
Kate Jewell |
This talk traces some of the festivals
which were important to medieval Suffolk communities, looking at how they
celebrated them. It also discusses how one particular community used
festivity to raise a huge amount of money in a time of need. |
PDF |
Tue 6 Feb 2018 |
Hadleigh in the
Sixties |
History Group |
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Normal poster 'Landscape'
poster |
Wed 21 Mar |
From Wool to Cloth |
Nicholas Amor |
How Suffolk was the powerhouse of the country
in past times.
Dr Nick Amor is an
honorary fellow of the University of East Anglia and chairman of the Suffolk
Institute of Archaeology and History. He is author of various papers on
Suffolk history and also two books - Late Medieval Ipswich: Trade and
Industry and From Wool to Cloth: The Triumph of the Suffolk Clothier. |
PDF poster |
Tue 1 May |
Suffolk Ghosts and
Hauntings |
Robert Halliday |
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PDF poster |
Wed 13 June |
AGM |
Graham Panton |
The Gayer-Anderson twins |
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Wed 11 Jul 2pm |
visit to the
garden at Polstead Mill |
introduction by
Lucy Bartlett, owner and creator of the garden |
as illustrated in Barbara Segall’s book ‘Secret
Gardens of East Anglia’. Allow two hours to enjoy it all. Booking essential
by Wednesday 4 July - Hattie Bawden 01473 823193 |
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Tue 7 Aug |
The Paston Letters |
Mark Mitchels |
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portrait
landscape |
Wed 3 Oct |
A History of Suffolk
Farmsteads |
Philip Aitkens |
An account of the variety of farms, farming and
associated buildings across Suffolk, noting the need for protection from the
pressures of housing development. |
PDF |
Tue 4 Dec |
Hadleigh -
Commerce, Trade and Industry |
Roger Kennell |
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portrait
landscape |
Wed 6 Feb 2019 |
History of Bawdsey
Radar |
Lynette Burgess |
Bawdsey Radar is where operational radar was
developed, in utmost secrecy, that helped win the Battle of Britain. Led by
Robert Watson-Watt, the scientific team worked against the odds to create
the blueprint for the Chain Home system that protected Britain in her
darkest days. Find out more about the role RAF Bawdsey played then, and how
the radar transmitter block has been restored and continues to tell this
important story. |
portrait
landscape |
Tue 26 Mar |
Purgatory & Church
Buildings |
Tony Redman |
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Portrait
Landscape |
Wed 1 May |
The Lost Medieval
Port of Goseford |
Peter Wain |
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portrait poster
landscape poster
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Tue 11 Jun |
AGM, then "Another
Hadleigh Murder" |
Ray Whitehand |
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Wed 7 Aug |
Building the Tower
at St Edmundsbury Cathedral |
Horry Parsons
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PDF - portrait
PDF - landscape |
Thu 19 Sep |
Garden Visit to Shelley
House |
Jane and Michael Crowe |
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Tue 8 Oct |
Woodbridge Artists
of the 19th Century |
Robert Blake |
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PDF |
Wed 4 Dec |
Suffolk’s Humphry Repton |
Edward Martin |
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PDF |
Tue 4 Feb 2020 |
The A to Z of
Curious Suffolk:
strange stories of mysteries,
crimes and eccentrics |
Sarah Doig |
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PDF |
Wed 25 Mar |
Cancelled Sudbury Common
lands and water ways |
Adrian Walters |
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PDF-P
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Tue 5 May |
Cancelled Where have the
houses gone? |
Lisa Psarianos |
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Wed 17 Jun |
AGM |
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